If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

Well, that's cricket Harry. These things happen in boxing

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost

I was about 18 six years ago. I'm 28 now.

But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

Forever means losing count of years.

Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it

Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.

Never underestimate the power of a woman.

Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.

Anyone can relate to suffering in this world.

Dinah Shore? Wonderful woman. Dinah formed a foundation to locate missing senior citizens by putting their pictures on prune juice bottles.

The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.